Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
By Issam Ahmed with AFP bureaus WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (AFP) – Children have begun starving to death in Gaza, where the United Nations has warned a famine is “almost inevitable.” Here’s what to know about the hunger crisis engulfing the war-torn Palestinian territory. – Emaciated children – At least 15 children have died from starvation and dehydration in a single hospital, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Media including AFP have […]
by Hassan Mohammed Agence France-Presse KAFR BATNA, Syria (AFP) – Dozens of trucks carrying aid for 40,000 people on Monday entered the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, where residents and relief groups have warned a humanitarian crisis is escalating. Shocking AFP images from the region this month showed severely underweight children, and doctors reported two infants had died of malnutrition and related complications. The United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red […]
by Abdulmonam Eassa and Amer Almohibany Agence France-Presse HAMOURIA, Syria (AFP) – Manal boils water on the stove in the besieged Syrian town of Hamouria, hoping to convince her four children that she is cooking, but she has no food. She puts the pot on the flame as a ruse, waiting for the children to fall asleep in the dilapidated house before they realise there is nothing for dinner. In the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta […]
